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This is how an invasion starts. They send one that slips under the radar so it can check us out and find out our weaknesses. If she's carbon based, and can live under a yellow sun, we have a chance against these things.

BEN QUINN
THE GUARDIAN
MAY 21, 2012 ET
Star Trek fans remember him as the USS Enterprise's chief engineer, a no-nonsense Scot whose role at the controls of the ship's transporter system spawned one of sci-fi's most legendary catchphrases.
On Tuesday however, it will be the turn of actor James Doohan himself to be "beamed up" to where few have ventured before when his remains, and that of more than 300 hardcore space enthusiasts, are blasted into orbit aboard a privately owned rocket.
Space Exploration Technologies' Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida carrying a 14.5-foot-tall (4.4-meter-tall) capsule called Dragon that is filled with food, clothes and supplies for the six astronauts and cosmonauts living aboard the International Space Station
The company, also known as SpaceX, replaced a faulty engine valve that triggered a last-second halt to its initial launch attempt on Saturday.
Tucked into Falcon 9 is a secondary payload, a container holding lipstick-tubesized canisters filled with cremated remains. The deceased include Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, who died in 2004, as well as Doohan, the Canada-born actor who portrayed chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original Star Trek television series. Doohan died in 2005.
If all goes as planned, nine minutes and 49 seconds after liftoff, Dragon's second stage will separate. It should spend the next year or so circling Earth as an orbital space memorial before it is pulled back into the atmosphere and incinerated.
Celestis Inc, a company based in Texas, has arranged for cremated remains to be flown in space 10 times previously, though not all the launches have been successful.
The Earth-orbiting space memorials cost about $3,000, while Celestis also arranges for suborbital flights and launches to the moon. Relatives are invited to attend the launch and then participate in a group memorial service.
The upcoming Falcon 9 flight is the firm's biggest yet, Charles Chafer, chief executive officer of parent company Space Services, wrote on his Facebook page. Ashes from 308 people are aboard, though most are reflights from a failed 2008 launch.
"With my Celestis team," Chafer posted on his Facebook page on Saturday, as the group gathered to watch the launch attempt.
"Ignition, no liftoff ... wow that was close. Try again Tuesday."
Chafer declined an interview request.
"We made a commitment not to comment publicly until after the mission," he wrote in an email to Reuters.

A well-meaning neighbor in a Canadian apartment complex called the cops after hearing an early morning round of "moaning and yelling" coming from a nearby residence. When officers arrived on the scene, they found a man who had been, um, struggling to take care of some bathroom business. "When questioned about the amount of noise he was making, the man explained that he had been ... on the toilet having his morning constitutional, but he was done now," deputy chief John Ducker said. The man reportedly said he'd keep the volume down from now on and try to stop being such a crappy neighbor.

i don't believe that term is really used any longer, but more people are intersexed than you might think.

he looks trans to me. i know some female to male trans folks that you would never guess if you didn't know them before transitioning.

Don't most of them change their names to fit their gender? I know one FtoM and the first thing he did when he turned 18 was to change his name to a masculine name. He didn't want to be known as Elizabeth and male. I'm ignorant on this subject and it's a real question.

Don't most of them change their names to fit their gender? I know one FtoM and the first thing he did when he turned 18 was to change his name to a masculine name. He didn't want to be known as Elizabeth and male. I'm ignorant on this subject and it's a real question.

most change their names, i'm sure, but perhaps don't bother to do it legally. this guy doesn't seem to do things by the rules.

i actually think that trans/queer folks are higher risks for these kinds of things--drugs and other criminal activity. they don't have easy lives, usually. seeing my own trans friends struggle makes me a little sensitive on the subject.

most change their names, i'm sure, but perhaps don't bother to do it legally. this guy doesn't seem to do things by the rules.

i actually think that trans/queer folks are higher risks for these kinds of things--drugs and other criminal activity. they don't have easy lives, usually. seeing my own trans friends struggle makes me a little sensitive on the subject.

This makes sense. I agree with you that they are higher risk for drugs/criminal activity. I have a lot of gay/lesbian friends and see the struggle I forgot, I actually know two FtoM, but one doesn't want to have anything to do with his past. It mad me sad when he emailed everyone to cut off contact, because I wanted to be able to support him. My other friend does not fall into the statistics. He has done so well for himself. I wish others were able to do the same.

This makes sense. I agree with you that they are higher risk for drugs/criminal activity. I have a lot of gay/lesbian friends and see the struggle I forgot, I actually know two FtoM, but one doesn't want to have anything to do with his past. It mad me sad when he emailed everyone to cut off contact, because I wanted to be able to support him. My other friend does not fall into the statistics. He has done so well for himself. I wish others were able to do the same.

i have a close friend that if FtoM who surely doesn't fall into the dark side of the queer world. he hasn't cut us all out, but it was not easy for a lot of my friends and it was tough to see him not be supported by people i love and care for. he lives in texas and many people in his life today have no idea he isn't a biological man. i can kind of see how someone might feel they had to cut out there past to truly start over, but it is sad and i think probably much easier with the support of your friends.

i have a close friend that if FtoM who surely doesn't fall into the dark side of the queer world. he hasn't cut us all out, but it was not easy for a lot of my friends and it was tough to see him not be supported by people i love and care for. he lives in texas and many people in his life today have no idea he isn't a biological man. i can kind of see how someone might feel they had to cut out there past to truly start over, but it is sad and i think probably much easier with the support of your friends.

Yeah. I can understand it, it just sucks when someone needs support and cuts it off. I can completely understand the new start, though. It's a tug of war because I want to support him. I guess I am supporting him by respecting his wishes. He is such a great person, too, and it sucks not to have him in my life anymore. Hopefully, someday, he will reach out and want to reconnect.

Yeah. I can understand it, it just sucks when someone needs support and cuts it off. I can completely understand the new start, though. It's a tug of war because I want to support him. I guess I am supporting him by respecting his wishes. He is such a great person, too, and it sucks not to have him in my life anymore. Hopefully, someday, he will reach out and want to reconnect.

that is a good point, and i hope you're right and he reconnects someday.

A Rapid City woman accused of possessing cocaine and about 45 pounds of marijuana faces up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

Thirty-year-old Rainbow Stoneman pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possessing drugs and intending to distribute them. U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says she was a passenger in a pickup truck that Rapid City police stopped and found drugs in on Feb. 13, 2010.

Originally Posted by bowieluva

lol at Nestle being some vicious smiter, she's the nicest person on this site besides probably puzzld. Or at least the last person to resort to smiting.

SAN ANTONIO ? The scene was so gruesome investigators could barely speak: A 3 1/2-week-old boy lay dismembered in the bedroom of a single-story house, three of his tiny toes chewed off, his face torn away, his head severed and his brains ripped out.

"At this particular scene you could have heard a pin drop," San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Monday. "No one was speaking. It was about as somber as it could have been."

Officers called to the home early Sunday found the boy's mother, Otty Sanchez, sitting on the couch with a self-inflicted wound to her chest and her throat partially slashed, screaming "I killed my baby! I killed my baby!" police said. She told officers the devil made her do it, police said.

"It's too heinous for me to describe it any further," McManus told reporters.

Sanchez is charged with capital murder in the death of her son, Scott Wesley Buccholtz-Sanchez. She was being treated Monday at a hospital, and was being held on $1 million bail.

'In and out' of psychiatric ward
The slaying occurred a week after the child's father moved out, McManus said. Otty Sanchez's sister and her sister's two children, ages 5 and 7, were in the house, but none were harmed.

Police said Sanchez did not have an attorney, and they declined to identify family members.

No one answered the door Monday at Sanchez's home, where the blinds were shut. A hopscotch pattern and red hearts were drawn on the walk leading up to the house.

Sanchez's aunt, Gloria Sanchez, said her niece had been "in and out" of a psychiatric ward but did not say where she was treated or why. She said a hospital called several months ago to check up on her.

"Otty didn't mean to do that. She was not in her right mind," a sobbing Gloria Sanchez told The Associated Press on Monday by phone. She said her family was devastated.

Investigators are looking into Sanchez's mental health history to see if there was anything "significant," and whether postpartum difficulties could have factored into the attack, McManus said.

Postpartum depression ? a pattern?
Postpartum depression and psychosis have been cited as contributing factors in several other cases in Texas in recent years in which mothers killed their children.

Andrea Yates drowned her five children in her Houston-area home 2001, saying she believed Satan was inside her and trying to save them from hell. Her attorneys said she had been suffering from severe postpartum psychosis, and a jury found Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006.

In 2004, Dena Schlosser killed her 10-month-old in her Plano home by slicing off the baby's arms. She was found not guilty of reason by insanity, after testifying that she killed the baby because she wanted to give her to God.

Neighbor Luis Yanez, 23, said his kids went to school with one of the small children who lived at the house. He said he often saw a woman playing outside with the children but didn't know whether it was Otty.

"Why would you do that to your baby?" said Yanez, a tire technician. "It brings chills to you. They can't defend themselves."

Allen Taylor, another neighbor, said "once she gets back in her right mind, she's going to be devastated."